The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and released “a guidebook for action” summarizing what it calls discriminatory laws in each state, along with “know your rights” information and health and safety resources.
Sounding the alarm about the current political environment, the nation’s largest organization devoted to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans said advisories warning against travel to dangerous places aren’t enough to help people already living in so-called hostile states.
The emergency declaration is the first in the 40-year history of the HRC.
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